PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES CHAIR AND MEMBERS
TO THE PANEL TO REVIEW LONG-RANGE AIR POWER

The President today announced his intent to appoint General Larry
Welch as Chair and General Robert C. Rutherford and Frederick L.
Frostic as Members to the Panel to Review Long-Range Air Power.

General Larry Welch (Retired), of Alexandria, Virginia, is
currently President and CEO of The Institute for Defense Analyses. He
has held a variety of positions as an Air Force Officer from 1954 to
1984. General Welch received his B.S. from the University of Maryland
and his M.S. from George Washington University.

General Robert C. Rutherford (Retired), of Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas,
served as commander in chief of the United States Transportation
Command, and commander of the Air Force's Air Mobility Command, Scott
Air Force Base, III. He is a graduate of the National and
International Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government. He received his M.A. in Business Administration from
Auburn University, and his B.A. degree in Business Administration from
Southwest Texas State University.

Frederick L. Frostic, of Falls Church, Virginia, is currently with
Booz, Allen Hamilton. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Requirements and Plans from June 21, 1994, until last spring. Mr.
Frostic received his B.S. from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1963,
where he ranked 4th in his class and won the Claire L. Chennault Award
as the Outstanding Cadet in Basic Sciences. He received his MS in
Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1971.

The Long Range Air Power Review Panel is an independent panel
mandated by the Fiscal Year 1998 Defense Appropriations Act and charged
to evaluate the adequacy of current planning for U.S. long-range air
power and the requirement for continued low-rate production of the B-2
stealth bomber. The panel is scheduled to conduct additional meetings
during February before it makes its final report in March. The panel
is responsible for reporting to Congress and the President its
conclusions and recommendations on the appropriate B-2 bomber force.
Specifically, the panel is to state its recommendation on whether
additional funds for the B-2 should be used for continued low-rate
production of the B-2, or for upgrades to improve the aircraft's
deployment ability, survivability and maintainability. The Panel will
include members appointed by Congress: General Merrill McPeak, Walter
Morrow, Donald Rice, Samuel Adcock, Senator James Exon and John Foster.